State v. Jones
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Howard District Court. The defendant was accused of the crime of disfiguring, committed, as was charged in the indictment, by biting, slitting and tearing off the nose of one Richard Hughes, with intent to disfigure said Hughes. He was found guilty of the offense by the verdict of a jury, and the court sentenced him to a term of imprisonment in the penitentiary, and from that judgment he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
One of the grounds of defendant’s motion for a new trial was that the plea of “not guilty,” on which he was 1practic™AL plea oí “not guilty” entered by defend-mííis0ab-isel sence. tried, was entered by the counsel who appeared for him, and that he was not personally present L y in court when the plea was entered. It is pro vBled statute (Code, §-4361) that “the plea 0f guilty can only be put in by the defendant himself in open court.” But there is no special provision with reference to the entry of the plea of “ not guilty ” except that contained in section 4367, which requires the court to…
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